Witches' Eye
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has "
, 
: Scry 1." (To scry 1, look at the top card of your library, then you may put that card on the bottom.)
Equip
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #20713
Witches' Eye costs one mana to play and one mana to activate, netting you a scry 1 — playable rate on paper, but scry 1 is simply too shallow to justify the deck slot in any serious list. There are cleaner ways to spend two mana, and almost all of them draw a card instead of filtering one.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Witches' Eye is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but format legality and format playability are different things. In Commander, where card advantage is taxed hardest and every slot competes against engines, Witches' Eye doesn't make the cut — scry 1 on a stick doesn't move the needle when you need to be drawing cards, not peeking at them. In Legacy and Vintage, the format is so fast that a two-mana scry-1 loop is functionally invisible. Modern and Pioneer have enough cheap cantrips and looters that Witches' Eye never competes for a slot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Witches' Eye is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a bulk rare box by accident despite being a common. That price is stable for the same reason a card gets bulk-priced in the first place: demand is essentially zero, so there's nowhere for it to go.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.